When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books. You will be reading meanings.

Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.

There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.

There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise

Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.

We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.

Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.

...for if a woman's body can attract the holy angels, how much more the unholy man.

Don't take it as a struggle. Consider it as your pursuit for the unseen rewards.

When you're looking so hard to get on your path, you're putting up resistance that keeps you from finding it.

I could make good time because I was so long and skinny, shooting through the water like a stick.

I grew up reading 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - girly kind of books.

Women want to be chosen.

You'd think I was shoving bamboo splinters under your nails. (Alice from Twilight)

The romantic treatment of death asserts that people were made singular, made more interesting, by their illnesses.

To move foward, you have to leave the past behind

Things you grew up watching, they just stay with you. They form what you like to do.